Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900 /
Olson, Sherry H.
Thornton, Patricia A.
Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2011.
"Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when people flooded into emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal, using information from a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis." -- Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-501) and indexes.
1. Trajectories -- 2. Tracking a Population -- 3. The Drawing Power of the City -- 4. The Hazards of City Living -- 5. The Pace of Family Formation -- 6. The Marriage Partnership in Context -- 7. Emerging Opportunities in the Urban Economy -- 8. Facing Risk: The Elastic Household -- 9. A Geography of Encounter -- 10. City Folks in Their Rural Contexts -- 11. The Social Emotions and the Social Fabric -- 12. Toward a Dynamic of Cultural Coexistence.
"Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when people flooded into emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal, using information from a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis." -- Page 4 of cover.
City and town life
Immigrant families
Assimilation (Sociology)